Why Attend

The global agrochemical market is projected to reach $266.0 billion by 2021, by attending the Ag Formulation and Technology Congress you will gain the knowledge to develop your products and reach your share in this market. Learn from key agrochemical companies including Monsanto, Adama, Bayer, and Syngenta, as well as leading academics, about how they are working to produce more effective crop protection products, including challenges they have faced with their new formulations and application technologies and strategies they used to overcome these challenges.

With dedicated 1 to 1 business meetings available during the networking breaks to facilitate new collaborations, this congress will provide you with all that you need to develop innovative products and be at the forefront of the future of crop protection.

100+

Attendees

5+

Hours of Networking

18+

Speakers

8

dedicated 1-to-1 business meetings per attendee using the Meeting Mojo app

Leading Formulation and Application Scientists – Bringing together Heads of Formulation, Formulation Managers and Application Experts

Technology and solution providers

Leading academics

Benefits of Attending

Gain formulation insight from 18+ industry experts including Bayer CropScience and Monstano to help you advance your agrochemical pipeline

Hear from Copa Cogeca, LTO Nederland, BelOrta, and The National Farmers Union, to discover what new formulations and application technology will be required over the next 5-10 years

Discover what attributes will be required from new crop protection formulations in the future with guidance from Adama

Learn about the latest advances in micro-encapsulation and controlled release crop protection products, including the development of the largest capsule application worldwide

Discover how robotics, digitalization, drones, and AgTech is transforming formulation and application technology development and identify how you can enhance your product strategies using these

Harness new data to help engineer formulations with a focus on application

Form new collaborations with partners who are at the forefront of formulation and application technology innovation

Learn about new technology platforms that are on the market that can help improve your formulation

The Speakers

Dr. Roy Chen

Formulation Team Lead

Adama

Dr. Roy Chen

Formulation Team Lead

Adama

Dr. William Abraham

Director, New Product and Process Technology

Monsanto

Dr. William Abraham

Director, New Product and Process Technology

Monsanto

Pedro Gallardo Barrena

Vice President of the Cereals Working Group

Copa Cogeca

Pedro Gallardo Barrena

Vice President of the Cereals Working Group

Copa Cogeca

Dr. Melanie Kah

University of Vienna

Dr. Melanie Kah

University of Vienna

Dr. Andrew Hewitt

Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences

University of Queensland

Dr. Andrew Hewitt

Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences

University of Queensland

Dr. Jim Bullock

Co-founder and Director

iFormulate

Dr. Jim Bullock

Co-founder and Director

iFormulate

Dr. Fideline Tchuenbou-Magaia

University of Wolverhampton

Dr Fideline Tchuenbou-Magaia is a senior lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. She has more than 10 year experience in formulation engineering with focus on encapsulation and controlled release of molecules. Dr Tchuenbou-Magaia has developed controlled release formulations with application primarily in food and nutraceuticals, oral healthcare and cosmetics, agrochemical, energy storage and carbon capture.

Guy Smith

Ketan Mehta

Ketan Mehta

Luc Peeters

Luc Peeters

Malcom Faers

Bayer Cropscience

Malcom Faers

Bayer Cropscience

Dr. Huub Schepers

Wageningen University

Dr. Huub Schepers

Wageningen University

Simon Blackmore

Professor

Harper Adams University

Simon Blackmore is a key figure in the development of Precision Farming and agricultural robotics, with a world-wide reputation. Simon is currently Professor and Head of Robotics and Automation, Agri-Epi Centre at Harper Adams University, Director of the National Centre for Precision Farming and managed the European FutureFarm project.

Simon Blackmore

Professor

Harper Adams University

Simon Blackmore is a key figure in the development of Precision Farming and agricultural robotics, with a world-wide reputation. Simon is currently Professor and Head of Robotics and Automation, Agri-Epi Centre at Harper Adams University, Director of the National Centre for Precision Farming and managed the European FutureFarm project.

Simon holds seven Chairs around the world and gives many national and international keynote presentations. Simon leads the research in the UK on agricultural robotics.

Simon personal research focuses on improving Precision Farming by developing more intelligent machines and processes, and making crop production more efficient and sustainable.

Dr Martin Viertelhaus

Research Scientist

BASF SE

Dr Martin Viertelhaus

Research Scientist

BASF SE

Professor Emilio Gil

Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Professor Emilio Gil

Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Daniel Bonn

Director, Institute of Physics

University of Amsterdam

Daniel Bonn is director of the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam, where over 200 researchers work. He is also group leader of the Complex Fluids Group, which studies the flow behavior of surfactant, polymer and colloid systems, and totals about 30 people. Before coming to Amsterdam recently, he was a CNRS research director at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he led the ‘complex fluids’ group.

Daniel Bonn

Director, Institute of Physics

University of Amsterdam

Daniel Bonn is director of the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam, where over 200 researchers work. He is also group leader of the Complex Fluids Group, which studies the flow behavior of surfactant, polymer and colloid systems, and totals about 30 people. Before coming to Amsterdam recently, he was a CNRS research director at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he led the ‘complex fluids’ group. He published more than 200 papers on wetting, complex fluids and hydrodynamics and was invited more than 40 times as a speaker at international conferences In the past five years. Daniel Bonn has a large amount of industrial collaborations such as with Michelin, SKF and Unilever, Shell, DSM, Akzo Nobel, ASML etc. Bonn is also co-founder of the startup company GreenA that just received a Round A investment from a venture capital firm and now employs several people.

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This engagement is aimed to achieve the Sustainable Development as an integration of three fundamental and linked aspects: Society, Economy and Environment.

The action of Lamberti to fulfil this purpose includes more training for its employees, initiatives for health promotion, continuous and precise communication to personnel and external community and the development of eco-friendly products.

International Pest Control

International Pest Control (IPC)magazine is in its 60th year of publication in 2018. It is the leading independent, bi-monthly magazine, in the world dealing with all aspects of pest prevention and pest eradication. The magazine aims to cover all aspects of pests and human conflict and regularly focuses on :-

Public Health

Agriculture

Horticulture & Amenity

Forestry & Plantation

Animal Health

Because pests do not recognize national boundaries, the problems are increasingly approached from an international perspective.

The magazine provides authoritative reviews of pest control developments worldwide, with news, articles, reviews, features and comments. It is published in the interest of everyone concerned with the control of infestation of all types - in agriculture; in food manufacturing, storage and distribution; in domestic, commercial and industrial premises.

IPC keeps its readers informed of trends in new techniques, new chemicals, new products, and new methods of applying existing remedies – these are the practical tools of the pest control industry the world over.

The magazine also provides information on control and protection against various diseases transmitted by insects.

Subscribers to International Pest Control magazine have free on-line access with search facility to all back issues published since January 2004.

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